Death Of A Salesman Flashcards

(42 cards)

1
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Willy talking about his old boss in the beginning

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If old man wager was alive I’d be in charge of New York by now

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2
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What does Willy say about the grass

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The grass don’t grow anymore

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3
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What does happy say about Willy in the beginning

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When he walks into the store waves part in front of him

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4
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What does Willy say about his career in the future

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Someday I’ll have my own business

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5
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What was Bernards warning

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He’s gonna flunk you

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6
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What does Willy say in retaliation to Bernard

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Don’t be a pest bernard

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7
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Willys conversation with the woman

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I picked you - woman

You picked me? - Willy

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8
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Woman and materialism

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I love a lot of stockings

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9
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Linda had her stockings

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Just mending my stockings

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10
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Stage direction describing buildings

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Towering angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides

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11
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Linda criticising biff’s behaviour around girls

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He’s too rough with the girls… all the mothers are afraid of him!

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12
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Willy about Ben act 1

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“A great man!”

“Success incarnate”

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13
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Willys regrets regarding Alaska

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Why didn’t I go to Alaska

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14
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What does Ben teach biff and happy

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Never fight fair with a stranger boy

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15
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Linda defending Willy

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The man who never worked a day but for your benefit

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16
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Linda revealing Willys suicidal intentions

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All these accidents… werent- werent accidents

“A rubber pipe”

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17
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Willy admiring biff

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“Like a young god. Hercules”

18
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A salesman’s funeral

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When he died hundreds of salesmen and. Buyers were at his funeral

19
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Howard’s quote

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Pull yourself together and then go home

20
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Willy and Howard convo

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Now billy you never averaged-

I averaged 170 a week

21
Q

Willy criticising biff

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There’s on thing about biff he’s not lazy

22
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Biff stealing football

23
Q

Willy boasting about biff (past)

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they’ll be calling him another red grange

Bill Oliver… he wants biff very badly

24
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Bernard asking talking about biff after witnessing affair

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He disappeared… for almost a month

What happened in Boston billy ?

25
Willy gets angry and charley
I’ve got a job | I don’t want your goddamn job !
26
Willy confessing to Charley
I was just fired
27
Biff’s realisation
I realised what a ridiculous lie my whole life had been
28
Biff stealing again
I took his fountain pen
29
Biff getting annoyed a Willy’s interruptions
Dad you’re not letting me tell you what I want to tell you
30
Willy angry at biffs stealing
You stole Oliver’s fountain pen!
31
Biff shouting at hapoy
He’s going to Jill himself don’t you know that!
32
Willy making excuses for his affair
She’s nothing to me... I was lonely... terribly lonely
33
Orange quote
you cant eat the orange and through the peel away- a man is not a piece of fruit
34
What does Willy say to Stanley the waiter
Here’s some more I don’t need it anymore
35
Biff trying to make Willy see th reality if their situation
You’re never going to see what I am Will you take that phone dream and burn it before something happens I am a dime a dozen and so are you
36
Willy telling biff he is special
I am not a dime a dozen I am Willy loman
37
Linda reassuring Willy if biffs love
He loves you Willy
38
Willy complimenting biff right at the end
That boy is going to be magnificent!
39
Linda’s speech contrasts a ‘salesman’s funeral’
Why didn’t anybody come?
40
Biff in requiem
He had the wrong dreams. All all wrong
41
Happy following in willys footsteps
Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream
42
Linda’s entrapment
I can’t cry. I don’t know what it is but I can’t cry | We’re free...We’re free